Corporate Citizenship

Independent external assurance is increasingly expected of all good sustainable development and corporate responsibility reports.  We believe that good assurance adds value, not just to an organisation’s reporting but to the whole programme.  We work with clients to ensure that they choose the right form of assurance for them and their programme.  We organise our engagement so that it adds value right through the assurance process, not just in a statement at the end.

Corporate Citizenship’s assurance team has the depth of expertise that you need to get the most out of your programme.  Our UK FTSE100 clients include Aviva, Barclays, Centrica and Diageo. We offer a worldwide assurance service, with assignments for ANZ and the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group) among others.

We do not believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach.  Assurance ranges from direct interface with stakeholders and comment by a panel of experts through to an intensive engagement by our experts using the guidelines set out in the AA1000 Assurance Standard or ISAE3000.  For some organisations verification of the accuracy of all or part of their performance data will be a central concern, for others it’s the content and presentation that matters most.

So we provide varying degrees of assurance of companies’ CSR and sustainability reports, as well as of particular corporate systems and functions, such as community relations and procurement. We also conduct assurance of community contributions based upon the application of the LBG methodology.